David Hastoglis

I listened to an H&HN Daily podcast yesterday titled ACOs Need to Focus on Clinical Care, Too. Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) CEO Maureen Bisognano was interviewed, and there were two themes that struck me in particular: Fragmentation of the patient experience leads to increased cost and decreased patient experience: Bisognano points out that many […]

Mobile and social technologies have gained great momentum at this year’s HIMSS conference. The Healthcare team at Perficient has planned a variety ways to interact via mobile, social, and in person means (if you’re into that). If you are new to the social scene, the Perficient HIMSS page is equipped with tools you can use […]

Social business has revolutionized the health care industry. Both patients and hospitals are moving into the social space via traditional and healthcare specific collaboration communities. Healthcare organizations are met with a bevy of challenges when attempting to balance the benefits of adopting a social strategy with security and investment concerns. On Thursday, February 24th at […]

Join us Thursday, January 27, 2011, 12:00 PM CT for HIPAA 4010A1 to 5010 Migration: Rapid Compliance with a Step-up/Step-Down Approach Register at: www.perficient.com/webinars As part of the final rule for HIPAA 5010 implementations, CMS has defined specific milestones that help healthcare organizations evaluate their progress towards compliance. Many organizations have just now begun the […]

The following Advisory Board presentation by David Katz does an excellent job highlighting the role of clinical IT and data in the transformation of the overall Healthcare landscape. I particularly like the breakdown of reform into phases over time.

In February 2009, the federal government passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) providing much needed support to an industry that has struggled in a financially challenging landscape. The federal government is projected to spend at least $300 million in support of health information exchange (HIE) activities in 2009 and 2010. While it is […]

Welcome to our healthcare blog. We look forward to sharing information on the latest trends in healthcare technology and strategy with you. I hope you find that we have pulled together a diverse team of writers with many years of experience in the provider, payor, life sciences and government space. We have implemented large HIT […]